Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)
On Fri 12 Mar 2021 at 19:26:05 +0000, Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2021, at 19:03, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
>
> > I'm just guessing, but how do they access Facebook and yet not be able
> > to use a telephone?
>
> I think some of you miss some of the advantages of Facebook. It allows
> me to stay loosely in touch with around 120 friends, many of whom I have
> not seen face-to-face for maybe 30 years. They can see I'm still alive and
> I them, and I'm able to feel just slightly more in-touch with them.
>
> The overall effect is a bit like that of receiving a once-per-year round-robin
> letter from each of them, except that instead of a whole wodge of news
> coming once per year, one gets - shall we say - a fiftieth of the amount
> 50 times more often.
>
> It also allows one to comment immediately on something someone else
> has done, which requires a lot less commitment than a full conversation
> with someone whom, in fact, one perhaps no longer knows well.
>
> I would not expect most of these people ever to ring me, and by the
> same token I am not going to ring 120 people, who're now spread all
> across the world.
As a non-Facebook user - well said.
--
Brian.
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